Program Goals
The close collaboration with our clinical partners from pulmonology and cardiology affords our fellows learning opportunities in interventional pulmonology and cardiology, as well as in echocardiography. We also collaborate with our clinical counterparts on a weekly basis with multidisciplinary conferences, including an interstitial lung disease conference, a thoracic oncology tumor board, a lung cancer screening conference, and radiology-pulmonology and radiology-cardiology case conferences.
The CTI section interprets approximately 110,000 studies per year. Our CTI faculty currently includes six attending physicians, all of whom are devoted teachers and/or researchers. The CTI section also hosts a growing number of research fellows. Clinical interests of the CTI section focus on the imaging of interstitial lung disease, airway imaging, imaging of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, oncological imaging, imaging of cardiac disease—both adult and pediatric— and the imaging of cardio-pulmonary interactions. The CTI section also runs a rapidly growing CT lung cancer screening program. Our fellows participate in daily teaching rounds, as well as in a number of multidisciplinary clinical conferences. Finally, our fellows are encouraged and supported to actively participate in national and international CTI meetings and conferences.
The CTI section has a highly active research program. The section holds weekly research meetings, including both didactic sessions and work-in-progress presentations. The section is a recognized leader in several areas of CTI research. The section also provides a robust research infrastructure and is currently partnering with a significant number of industry partners, notably in the field of artificial intelligence, machine learning, computer-aided detection and characterization, and image processing. The CTI section serves as a center of excellence for several of these industry partners.
Faculty of the perform more than one million studies per year, across five UMass Memorial Medical Center hospitals and an outpatient imaging center. Current faculty include 65+ fellowship trained radiologists, all practicing in organ or modality-based divisions, and a 24/7/365 Emergency Radiology Division. The department trains five residents per year (20 total) and currently has nine dedicated clinical fellowships. The department uses an enterprise-wide PACS system (AGFA and TeraRecon), as well as EPIC EMR. The main department and outpatient imaging center in Worcester have six MRIs (including a new GE Pioneer 3T system), seven CTs, including a Siemens “flash” and two Siemens 128 Definition Edge CTs.
UMass Memorial Medical Center is the largest health care systems in Central Massachusetts, covering more than one million patients. It includes a Comprehensive Stroke Center of Massachusetts. UMass Memorial Medical Center is the clinical partner of UMass Chan Medical School, offering fellows access to the latest technology, research cores and clinical trials. In addition to the fully equipped medical centers, the system also includes home health and hospice programs, behavioral health programs and community-based physician practices. UMass Memorial Medical Center is located in Central Massachusetts and is close to Boston, Cape Cod and numerous other recreational areas. Many faculty members live in or close to Boston and enjoy a hassle-free reverse commute to Worcester. Other faculty members live closer to UMass, both in Worcester and in neighboring towns such as Shrewsbury and Westborough.